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vxbush
3/25/2021 5:42:16 AM
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If one of our Thursdays is missing is this why Arthur Dent could never get the hang of Thursdays?
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PaladinPhil
3/25/2021 7:14:51 AM
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First round of important phone calls made. Just getting some household chores done and then going to the hospital to pick stuff up. Then her home to pick up an outfit then the funeral home. Afterwards some grocery and beer shopping before we get home. Good thing I did a bunch of dinner prep on Sunday. Got a bunch of options sitting in the freezer that just need a carbohydrate and veggies to prepare. Tonight is chili...
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doppelganglander
3/25/2021 7:29:58 AM
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I love the Thursday Next books. I used to own most of them but they seem to have ended up with my ex.
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Kosh's Shadow
3/25/2021 7:46:34 AM
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In #4 vxbush said: So what's different about Biden's administrative structure in the executive office? Gender Policy Council? I think they need to reduce the trans fats.
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Kosh's Shadow
3/25/2021 7:49:56 AM
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And I note I have been on the White House's email list since Bush II - including Obama and Trump administrations. So I signed up for the Biden/Harris one a few minutes ago. I'd expect a confirmation email (required by anti-spam). Nothing. I wonder if they are blocking email addresses that were on the Trump administration list.
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doppelganglander
3/25/2021 7:54:50 AM
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Reply to PaladinPhil in 3: There's always so much to do. You are in my thoughts.
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buzzsawmonkey
3/25/2021 8:02:44 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 9: Well, if you suddenly disappear, we'll forward all our correspondence to you at the Camp Squattupee Re-Education Facility.
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Kosh's Shadow
3/25/2021 8:05:54 AM
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What do leftist Jews who believe gender is chosen, not inborn, do for circumcision? 8 day old baby can't say which gender it identifies with.
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JCM
3/25/2021 8:15:29 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 6: (D)s have been doing that since Wilson. FDR was highly successful, Social Security, New Deal, Wickard v. Filburn.
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vxbush
3/25/2021 8:41:09 AM
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In #13 JCM said: (D)s have been doing that since Wilson. FDR was highly successful, Social Security, New Deal, Wickard v. Filburn. True, but now they really seem to be in earnest to make sure they alone control everything at the federal level.
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JCM
3/25/2021 8:53:05 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 15: Too true. We can't be content with trying to stop it. We have to know the foundation of what they are doing and dig that out. IMAO finding a why to go after Wickard would be huge.
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Kosh's Shadow
3/25/2021 9:30:11 AM
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Very interesting article Some excerpts, but I stopped adding them as there were too many good ones
The federal government, the governments of states and localities run by the Democratic Party, along with the major corporations, the educational establishment, and the news media set strict but movable boundaries about what they may or may not say—on pain of being cast out, isolated from society’s mainstream. Using an ever-shifting variety of urgent excuses, which range from the coronavirus, to the threat of domestic terrorism, to catastrophic climate change, to the evils of racism, they issue edicts that they enforce through anti-democratic means—from social pressure and threats, to corporate censorship of digital platforms, to bureaucratic fiat. Nobody voted for this. Trump won in 2016 as the candidate who would lead the country class out of the clutches of the ruling class—as a caricature of Caddell’s Mr. Smith. The ruling class—Wall Street, K Street, Washington grifters, the educational establishment, the media, and the corporations—saw the alienation that Trump embodied as the mortal threat that it is to their own power and positions. Unable and unwilling to change their way of governing, or the system of heavily bureaucratized crony capitalism from which they so massively benefit, these people resolved to secure the votes of Blacks, Hispanics, women, and the young by encouraging them to make war on whites, men, and conservatives. “Hate thy neighbor and stick with us!” was their program. Hence the four-year campaign leading up to the 2020 election was all about hating Trump and beating down his voters on the basis of race, sex, the Russians—anything to divert from what the rampant oligarchy was doing to the rest of the country. Hate-as-identity was key to the ruling class’s victory in the 2020 election. Ruling people by insulting and harming them is problematic, and not reversible. The use that the oligarchy made of the COVID epidemic added to insult and injury, as well as to its power, in a manner previously unimaginable. Boldly dismissing without argument the fact that viral infections cannot be stopped from running their course once they have taken root in a population, they asserted that acquiescing to indefinite cessation of social and economic activities they deemed to be nonessential would stop the disease’s progression. The ensuing lockdowns, mask mandates, and other measures made life for most Americans worse in every way. But these strictures also crippled the sectors of American society independent of and resistant to the oligarchy—religious institutions and small businesses. They isolated people and limited what they could hear from and say to each other, leaving them prey to one-way propaganda narratives backed by nightly threats of mob violence. Even so, the ruling class’s victory depended on tens of thousands of votes out of 156 million, in some of the most corrupt counties in the land. In Pennsylvania, the vast majority of all mailed ballots were for Biden. The oligarchy sealed the victory as brazenly as they gained it: by meeting demands for transparency with ad hominem accusations backed by threats of social ostracism and enforced by control, which itself was attained in part by issuing naked threats backed by legislative and bureaucratic power—all over partisan, monopoly digital platforms which eventually participated in censorship. I could give even more quotes - RTWT
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Kosh's Shadow
3/25/2021 11:15:08 AM
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So anyone watch the Biden press conference? Did they do a good job with the audio-animatronic Biden?
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buzzsawmonkey
3/25/2021 11:31:15 AM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 18: I listened to some of his blather, until I couldn't take it any more. Besides, I have things to do. I don't see why anyone believes that this is "live." It could just as easily have been filmed in dribs and drabs over the last week, drastically edited, and presented as a "live event."
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doppelganglander
3/25/2021 11:40:29 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 20: It was live. I didn't watch but followed on Twitter. He stumbled over words, stopped talking in the middle of sentences, mispronounced an Asian reporter's name (which I am told is now a hate crime), and said he was in the Senate for 120 years. It appears the WH had given the reporters the questions in advance and Biden was supposed to read the answers (the script was visible) but he couldn't even manage that much.
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Kosh's Shadow
3/25/2021 11:41:58 AM
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In #20 buzzsawmonkey said: I don't see why anyone believes that this is "live." It could just as easily have been filmed in dribs and drabs over the last week, drastically edited, and presented as a "live event." The media would never lie to us that way/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(insert a few billion more/)
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buzzsawmonkey
3/25/2021 11:44:29 AM
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In #21 doppelganglander said: It was live. Well, to the extent he wasn't dead when he answered the questions, anyway. I'll give you that.
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Kosh's Shadow
3/25/2021 11:49:40 AM
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Weekend at Biden's
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PaladinPhil
3/25/2021 12:06:12 PM
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Been day drinking since we got home from errands. Majority of phone calls made, effects picked up from the hospital, funeral home arrangements done. I am teetering on the edge right now, but at least the big stuff has been taken care of.
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Kosh's Shadow
3/25/2021 12:08:09 PM
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Have new phone. Old one having some problems (screen flickers, strange blue wavy background) Much easier - connect the two phones, a bit of stuff, and it copies. Let's see if it really does work. But the big question is, do I change the dog picture in the background? The current phone has a long gone standard poodle, but since the new phone is a Pixel, and we had a dog named Pixel (gone almost a year), do I change to his picture?
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Occasional Reader
3/25/2021 12:19:14 PM
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I'm watching a presentation now about a country where we do business.
Yes, "protests" means "riots" Nobody is allowed to say "riot" any more (unless it's Trump supporters taking selfies, of course).
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Occasional Reader
3/25/2021 12:20:40 PM
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In #26 Kosh's Shadow said: But the big question is, do I change the dog picture in the background? The current phone has a long gone standard poodle, but since the new phone is a Pixel, and we had a dog named Pixel (gone almost a year), do I change to his picture? I think your phone should feature a picture of... Me. Al Franken.
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Kosh's Shadow
3/25/2021 12:21:06 PM
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In #27 Occasional Reader said: Yes, "protests" means "riots" Nobody is allowed to say "riot" any more (unless it's Trump supporters taking selfies, of course). As is usual, Israel was the canary in this coal mine, with convicted terrorists being called "political prisoners".
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doppelganglander
3/25/2021 12:23:19 PM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 23: If it was pre-recorded, it's the worst editing job in history.
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buzzsawmonkey
3/25/2021 12:24:36 PM
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In #30 doppelganglander said: If it was pre-recorded, it's the worst editing job in history.
Or, the outtakes were even more appalling.
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Occasional Reader
3/25/2021 12:29:57 PM
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Reply to doppelganglander in 21:
Now, the question: Will the MSM report this as the greatest political oratory since Cicero? Or merely since Churchill?
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buzzsawmonkey
3/25/2021 12:31:09 PM
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In #32 Occasional Reader said: Now, the question: Will the MSM report this as the greatest political oratory since Cicero? Or merely since Churchill?
Not Churchill; the leftwing media supports separation of Churchill and state.
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Alice in Dairyland
3/25/2021 12:44:52 PM
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Well I gotta admit, I watched it. His speaking style does not work for me. He talks so slowly and with so many pauses that my mind tends to wander off between words. Maybe that's done on purpose, so nobody really knows what the hell he just said. The answers did seem scripted though. Someone would ask a question about Korea. He'd ruffle through his papers until he found the one marked "Korea" and read a statement about it, not really answering the question asked. Sometimes the statement he was making didn't even pertain to the question asked. He was calling on reporters from a list, "now where am I?' Several times he just stopped in mid-sentence, totally lost his chain of thought. Yes, he did say he was in the senate for 120 years! He stated the majority of republicans supported him, just not the politicians. Yeah, show me one. Criticized objection to HR1, said people waiting in line couldn't even be given water. I'm sorry, but if you know you may be standing in line to vote, maybe bring your own water or just maybe you're not smart enough to be voting. He did only wander off once, unfortunately he found his way back to the podium. Blamed just about everything on Trump. He did say "God, I miss him" under his breath though. I think the thing that bothered me most was when he said he was elected to solve our problems. No, he was selected because the election was rigged.
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Occasional Reader
3/25/2021 1:02:11 PM
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In #34 Alice in Dairyland said: He'd ruffle through his papers until he found the one marked "Korea" and read a statement about it "Corea! Yeah, he was a hell of a jazz pianist. I saw him once in, I think it was, 1920? Or maybe 2120? Anyway. What the hell am I doing here?"
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Alice in Dairyland
3/25/2021 1:16:47 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 35: I see you watched him too! That's about what it sounded like.
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Occasional Reader
3/25/2021 1:21:42 PM
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Reply to Alice in Dairyland in 36:
No, I did not have the, uh, pleasure. Just extrapolating here.
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Alice in Dairyland
3/25/2021 1:42:51 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 37: In all fairness, you really didn't have to watch it to know what he was going to say. It was kind of funny, there was a video of him on right before the speech. He had the fuzzy, old man hair going and all his moles and age spots showing. In the press conference his hair was smoothed down and he had the youthful skin of a much younger man. Hollywood Joe, "I'm ready for my close-up Mr DeMille".
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lucius septimius
3/25/2021 1:53:08 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 38: ummmm ...
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Occasional Reader
3/25/2021 1:57:59 PM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 40:
I'm swapping out all my pork-based products for bacon and prosciutto.
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Kosh's Shadow
3/25/2021 2:38:46 PM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 41: To be more specific: Deuterium and tritium are isotopes of hydrogen Hydrogen nucleus - 1 proton Deuterium nucleus - 1 proton + 1 neutron Tritium nucleus - 1 proton + 2 neutrons The number of protons is what determines the element, but the number of neutrons may vary. Some isotopes are stable; some are not.
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lucius septimius
3/25/2021 2:51:45 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 42: I knew that when I was, oh, five.
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Kosh's Shadow
3/25/2021 2:58:28 PM
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In #43 lucius septimius said: I knew that when I was, oh, five. Probably the same here.
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lucius septimius
3/25/2021 3:01:58 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 44: Back in the Cold War, we learned that sort of stuff pretty early.
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JCM
3/25/2021 3:13:33 PM
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A proton walks into a bar, goes up to the bartender, and says, “I’d like a beer.” The bartender says, “are you sure? ”The proton answers, “yes, I am positive.”
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doppelganglander
3/25/2021 3:29:57 PM
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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 42: I saw the Unstable Isotopes open for Thomas Dolby in '83. https://youtu.be/V83JR2IoI8k Insert link thingy isn't working.
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